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CSS CSS Selectors Selectors - Beyond the Basics Attribute Selectors Challenge

Posted by Sarah Saad
Sarah Saad
Courses Plus Student 3,223 Points

Challenge Task 2 of 3 - CSS Selectors coming back with an error with code entered!

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/css-selectors/selectors-beyond-the-basics/attribute-selectors-challenge

code entered is:

/* Attribute Selectors ------------- */

img[title="avatar"]{ border-radius: 50%; }

input[type="password"]{ color: "#ccc"; }

ERROR: Make sure you're setting the color to '#ccc'.

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

img[title="avatar"]{
    border-radius: 50%;
}

input[type="password"]{
  color: "#ccc";
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Selectors</title>
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Nunito:400,300' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="base.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div id="container">
        <form class="form-contact">
        <img src="avatar.png" title="avatar" alt="">

          <label for="un">Username:</label> 
          <input type="text" id="un">

        <label for="pw">Password:</label>
        <input type="password" id="pw">

          <input type="submit" value="Sign up">
        </form>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

3 Answers

Sam Queen
Sam Queen
710 Points
Sam Queen
Sam Queen
710 Points

you have quotations around #ccc. 

input[type="password"]{
  color: #ccc;
}

This will do the trick

Sarah Saad
Sarah Saad
Courses Plus Student 3,223 Points

Thanks, such an oversight on my part!

Sam Queen
Sam Queen
710 Points
Sam Queen
Sam Queen
710 Points

You're welcome. I'm pretty new to this so I now how you feel.

Michael Marsh
Michael Marsh
11,980 Points
Michael Marsh
Michael Marsh
11,980 Points

I'm having this issue without the quotation marks around the color.

img[title="avatar"] {
  border-radius: 50%;
};

input[type="password"] {
  color: #ccc;
};